Another Ezekiel 38 Meeting

Check out what 3 nations just met in Astana.  Remember friends, this is the first time in world history that the leaders of these players listed in Ezekiel 38 have gotten together.  Most prophecy watchers believe that their planned invasion of Israel will happen AFTER the rapture.  Could this be one more obvious sign that the age of grace is may end very soon?  If so, are we all ready?  Are we all busy doing the Master’s work?  Do we have oil in our lamps?

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In a strongly worded statement, Syria’s representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, accused Turkey of illegally occupying Syrian territory, and said that all foreign forces must exit immediately. His comments came as Iran, Turkey and Russia met in Astana and slammed the US recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel.

In his speech Al-Jaafari said that Turkey had not complied with a September agreement regarding its presence in Idlib province in Syria, and that Turkey had not removed terrorist groups from Idlib. Al-Jaafari claimed that there were numerous extremists in Idlib and that the details agreed at Sochi and Astana meetings by Turkey, Russia and Iran to remove these terrorists had not been complied with. “What Turkey’s delegation says is not applied on the ground,” he said. “The Sochi agreement clearly stipulated that Turkey’s side was committed to the withdrawal of the terrorists groups to a behind a buffer of 20km.” Syria also accused foreign powers of practicing economic terror against Syria.

https://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/Syria-says-Turkish-forces-illegally-occupy-Syria-bashes-Golan-decision-587992

Trump's Easter Message

As you listen to President Trump's one minute Easter message, can their be any doubt that Trump was elected for a time such as this??

Jerusalem, Golan Heights, friend of Israel, building a wall, tearing up bogus Iran agreement, calling Muslim terrorists what they are, and now this incredible Easter message.

Meanwhile Obama and Hilary can't say the word Christian or Jesus so they call the victims in Sri Lanka "Easter worshipers".

Thank you Lord for President Trump!  May you bless him and mature him in his walk with Christ.  Bless VP Pence as well and pray that he continues to lead Trump into the Word of God.  And finally please pray that Trump's Peace Agreement, that may soon be released, will be a blessing to Israel and that he won't suggest dividing up the promised land.

Watch it here;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcrcrYWRn0

Predictions of Doom that Never Came True

Al Gore said about 12 years ago that New York and other coastal cities were all going to be swamped by rising sea levels.  Yep...that never happened.

Now we have the Left furthering their predictions of doom.  They say that it's the government who needs to be given total control to save us from ourselves.

I'm confident that as long as humans are on earth there will be springtime and winter...the sun will come up, the sun will go down.

Of course during the Great Tribulation....all bets are off because Jesus said it will be a time like the world has never seen before or will ever see again.

Here's a list of the dire predictions that were made back in 1970 that never came to pass.

1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Here;  http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/

Hat tip to Dave G.

359 People Were in Pieces

We know that Islam was put on this earth by Satan himself to attack the claims of Jesus Christ.  And what better way than to attempt to attack anyone who may be claiming Christ as their savior?

We hear from the Left all the time that most Muslims are peaceful and that it's just a very few who are prone to violence.

While that might be, it's obvious that ardent followers of Allah and his pedophile prophet, Muhammad, can be triggered by the Prince of Darkness when he wishes. 

And when a dude with a huge backpack walked into a church on Resurrection Sunday and said "Allah akbar!" before blowing 359 people to bits...he was under Satanic influence.

"We are a peace-loving community in this small city, we had never hurt anyone, but we don't know from where this amount of hate is coming. This city has become a grave with blood and bodies lying around.... Since the past three years, we don't know why, but we see an extremist's mindset developing among the Muslims. I know many good Muslims, but there are also a lot who hate us, and they have never been so before. It is in these three years that we see a difference." — A Christian man who survived the bombing of St. Sebastian's Church in Sri Lanka.

In 2017, in Egypt, Islamic terrorists bombed two Coptic Christian churches during Palm Sunday mass, which inaugurates Easter week, murdering 50 people and wounding 120. On Easter Sunday 2016 in Pakistan, an Islamic suicide bomber detonated near the children's rides of a public park where Christians were known to be congregated and celebrating; over 70 people -- mostly women and children -- were murdered and nearly 400 wounded. On Easter Sunday 2012 in Nigeria, Islamic terrorists bombed a church, murdering at least 50 worshippers.

The Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka -- which in its death toll eclipses all previous Muslim attacks on Christians during Easter -- is a reminder that if the Islamic State is on the retreat in the Middle East, the hate-filled ideology to which it and like-minded Muslims adhere continues to spread, finding new recruits and new victims around the globe.

Here;  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14125/sri-lanka-easter-attacks

Israel Loves Trump

Now here is some news that should drive the Left further into insanity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he plans to honor President Donald Trump by naming a town after him.

Netanyahu wants to thank Trump for recognizing the Golan Heights as Israel’s territory by naming a town in the disputed lands after the president, according to NBC News.

“I’m here on the beautiful Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said.

“All Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

“Therefore, after the Passover holiday, I intend to bring to the government a resolution calling for a new community on the Golan Heights named after President Donald J. Trump.”

Here;  https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/israel-loves-trump-much-planning-name-town/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=SOFbreaking&utm_campaign=ct-breaking&utm_content=libertyalliance

The Coming Global Debt Crisis

It’s not a matter of IF but simply a matter of when.  The author also points out that if the collapse doesn’t happen before the rapture, then it will happen immediately after.  When millions of people vanish it will cause a crisis of confidence and the Antichrist will show up and propose a new system that will require a mark to buy or sell anything.

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A recent headline noted 40% of Americans are unable to handle an unexpected $400 expense. This isn’t surprising. Many Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Total outstanding U.S. consumer debt tops $3.9 trillion, and average household debt is $135,768. It’s clear many people struggle to manage their finances, and this mismanagement extends to our government budgets as well. The U.S. national debt currently exceeds $22 trillion, and the U.S. isn’t alone. Other countries also carry large national debts. Japan’s national debt exceeds $10 trillion, more than twice its gross domestic product. Globally, government debt equals $66 trillion. If you tried to pay that back over 100 years, it would cost you $1,255,707 per minute – and that’s at zero percent interest!

This is not the way God wants us to live. The Bible says you should owe nothing but love to anyone (Romans 13:8). It also says the borrower is servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7). The Bible also says you reap what you sow (Galatians 6:7). This means the world will eventually pay the price for its irresponsible spending decisions.

These massive national debts will lead to a great global crisis. The day will come when a nation or several nations will no longer be able to continue borrowing from tomorrow to pay for today. When will this happen? I don’t know. For decades, many have warned us we’ll pay a steep price for these massive debts. So far, we haven’t. But does that mean we never will? No. The day will come, and the pain will be severe. As the Bible says, if you guarantee a debt and you can’t pay it, “even your bed will be snatched from under you” (Proverbs 22:26-27). So how have we survived so long while piling up ever-increasing amounts of debt?

It’s done through an invisible tax called inflation. Most national debt is owed in its home nation’s currency. For example, United States debt is owed in U.S. dollars. Japanese debt is owed in yen. Mexican debt is owed in pesos, and so on. In each of these cases, the indebted government controls the currency it owes its debt in. This gives them a unique ability you and I don’t have. They can simply print more money to pay back their debt.

https://www.raptureready.com/2019/04/23/coming-global-debt-crisis-britt-gillette/

Saudis Pressuring Palestinians to Accept Trump Peace Plan

Lots of stuff going on here people!!  We need to pay attention and focus our prayers!!

First off, Trump has been awesome in moving our embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.  I believe God blessed him when he did that on Israel's 70th birthday.

Next Trump got the news that the Mueller report was a big goose egg on about the same day that he told the world that the Golan Heights was no longer considered OCCUPIED TERRITORY and that it was Israel's property.

But now he is going to release a peace plan that he has had his Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, working on for the past few years.  And if that peace plan includes a plan to divide Jerusalem or move Jews off of Israeli land in order to appease the Arabs....then things could turn very bad for Donald Trump and that means it could turn very bad for those of us that support what he has been doing.

And now we read that the Saudis are starting to get behind the yet to be released Trump Peace Plan.

According to a report on the website Alkhaleej Online, a member of Fatah’s central committee revealed on April 20 that heavy Arab pressure was being applied to the Palestinian Authority leadership with regard to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan—the so-called “deal of the century”—that the White House is expected to unveil in June. The official stated that Saudi Arabia was leading the campaign, the report said.

The source was quoted as saying: “There are Arab countries, chief among them Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, that express great interest in the American deal, and are employing every available means, including political and financial pressure, to assure that the Palestinians accept the plan, despite the risks it involves for the Palestinian cause.”

The source added that the position of the Arab countries on the deal cast a disappointing light on all their previous support for the Palestinian cause. He emphasized that the P.A. leadership would never give in to pressure, whether from the Arab states, the United States or Israel.

It should be noted that Alkhaleej Online, which is under Qatari ownership, is hostile to Saudi Arabia in light of the tensions between Doha and Riyadh.

Here;  https://bit.ly/2DvHDNU

It appears that the stage is continuing to be set for that day when the Antichrist appears in Israel and confirms a peace agreement.  But 3 1/2 years into that 7 year agreement, he will go sit in the Third Temple (which may soon be built) and he will put a cease to the sacrifices happening there and declare that HE is god.

What follows that event will be the worst events of chaos, murder and destruction that the world has EVER seen.  If Jesus didn't promise to show up and put an end to those days then nothing (no flesh) would survive.

Hezbollah Warns of War This Summer

We can file this article under WARS & RUMORS OF WAR.  And of course since the rumors involve God’s land, Israel, it takes on even more importance.  And yes, many other nations could be pulled into the next war that involves Israel.
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Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah warned top military commanders in a private meeting this week that there will be a war with Israel this summer and that he may not be around to support them, according to Elijah J. Magnier, a writer for the Kuwaiti Al Rai news.

“I may not remain among you for very long; it is possible that the entire first level of leadership could be killed, including myself,” Nasrallah reportedly told the commanders. “Measures and procedures have already been taken to be ready even if this extreme case happens.”

A “knowledgeable source” told Magnier that “this is the first time Sayyed Nasrallah has offered such a bleak perspective, raising the chances of war with Israel from 50/50 to 70/30.”

Magnier also claims that Nasrallah believes that other countries, including the USA, the UK and many Arab states could take part in an upcoming conflict.

https://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Nasrallah-warns-of-war-this-summer-worries-he-could-be-killed-report-587459

Hundreds of Christians Killed at Easter Worship in Sri Lanka

Sounds like a coordinated attack took place in Sri Lanka yesterday...but the media could barely get themselves to say "Muslims", or "Islamists" or even "Islamic terrorists"....so we were left to wonder WHO could have done such a heinous attack on Christians worshiping their resurrected Lord?

Hmmmm??  Could it be some angry Methodists who are still simmering about their thwarted LGBTQ vote at the annual meeting?

Maybe it was some disgruntled Hindus who were mad that the Christians were going to eat beef brisket for their Easter feast?

Or maybe a group of angry atheists who were willing to blow themselves up killing anyone who believes in hell?

The media just can't know for sure!! 

For the rest of the world who is still sane, we KNOW right from the beginning that it was worshipers of the demon-god called Allah who adhere to the spurious teachings of the pedophile prophet named Muhammad.

At least six different explosions were reported to hit hotels and churches as worshippers gathered for Easter services in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa, according to the Associated Press.Hours later, a blast at a guesthouse killed at least two people. Then an eighth explosion rocked an overpass in the area of Dematagoda on the outskirts of the capital of Colombo, according to police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara.

Three police officers were killed when they went to question suspects.

Officials say seven suspects have been arrested.

At least 20 foreigners are among the dead in Colombo, according to hospital Director General Anil Jasinghe. Among them are two who are both citizens of U.S. and United Kingdom. Also there are three Indians, one Portuguese national, two Turkish nationals and three British nationals.
The statement also says nine foreigners are reported missing.

Two of the blasts were suspected to have been carried out by suicide bombers, according to the unnamed official, but no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks early Sunday morning.
It’s the deadliest spout of violence in Sri Lanka since the South Asian country’s bloody civil war ended a decade ago. The island nation of some 23 million people off the southern tip of India has been relatively peaceful since the civil war ended, though its various factions have continued to jostle for power.

The majority are Sinhalese, mostly Buddhist, and the minority Tamil are Hindu, Muslim and Christian. Targeted in Sunday’s attacks, Christians, with a lower profile than some of the other factions, have only encountered scattered incidents against them in recent years.

The first blast rang through St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo. Alex Agileson, who was in the vicinity, said buildings in the surrounding area shook with the blast, according to the AP.

Here;  https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/04/several-americans-among-the-207-killed-in-sri-lanka-bombing-attacks-on-easter-sunday/ 

Islam is the only religion on planet earth that was CREATED to combat and attack the claims of another religion...Christianity.

Jesus died on the cross.

Islam says Jesus never died.

Jesus was raised from the dead after 3 days in the tomb.

Islam says Jesus was never raised from the dead.

Jesus says he is God and part of the Trinity.

Islam says Allah has no helpers...so Christians are all liars.

And yet how many of the local churches by your house believe that Muslims are worshiping the same God of the Bible that they are?

"Depart from me.  I don't know you." is what Jesus will say one day.

Scary words coming from the Creator of the Universe.

3 Days of Darkness

A woman came up to me at church last week and asked if I had heard anything about a recent prophecy called 3 Days of Darkness.  I admitted that I hadn't.  But a few days later I saw this article on Rapture Ready addressing this topic.

Because of my emergency management career, a friend recently wrote me to ask about the purportedly prophetic claims circulating on the internet about a coming “three days of gross darkness.” She was wanting to know not only how seriously to take these claims, but also how to upgrade her emergency preparedness for such an event.
While the Bible instructs us to be prudent, and it’s prudent to prepare for emergencies and disasters, it’s also important for believers to stay in tune with Truth, and not to give in to fear. While admittedly I’ve not done deep research into the claims she cited, here is my response, based merely on what I know of scripture and my observations about our times:
A cloud of darkness IS already attempting to take over the earth and has been for a long time. However, there is NO darkness in Christ, so the darkness is representative of the demonic (1 John 1:5).
As the world continues to drunkenly stagger toward the time of the tribulation, men’s hearts will grow cold. If you need evidence of cold hearts, consider that the governors of at least two states have spoken to promote infanticide, or actually blocked attempts to prevent it. How anyone could withhold care from a baby born alive, or to allow it to be killed outside the womb is horrifying. And even more horrifying is the attempt by some lawmakers in Ohio to allow special exceptions so that more black babies will be killed in the womb. Yet we were told these times would come. In fact, scripture clearly indicates that it is God who will bring a spirit of delusion on those who have so hardened their hearts that there’s no turning back. We are in that time (2 Thessalonians 2:11).
Most of the Old Testament Biblical references to three days of darkness are a metaphor for the three days in the tomb before the Resurrection. They represent a world without the saving work of Christ and being forever separated from God.
Many of the most easily found references to current warnings about three days of darkness appear to me to completely misunderstand the differences between things that will happen before the rapture and those that will happen later and are in the tribulation.
I do not believe these warnings would be related to anything like an EMP attack or grid failure, because the consequences of either would last much longer than a mere three days. These things could happen in our world, but anyone claiming they might be an explanation for coming darkness of only three days doesn’t know what they’re talking about, so they are essentially lying. And we know who is identified in the Word as the father of lies. We don’t need to listen to the enemy. The purposes of the demonic are to create fear, because fear is oppositional to faith.
God’s work is always redemptive in purpose and nature. If He allows darkness to literally fall on us before the rapture, He will still provide light to those who believe. Why? Because He inhabits each true believer, and thus HIS light (in whom there is no darkness) will still shine. Furthermore, it not only will still shine, but it will appear brighter against the darkness than against the present light of day (John 1:4-5; Ephesians 5:8).
He gave Israelites light many times, including the pillar of fire by night. Fire of the Holy Spirit?! There are classic scriptures like Isaiah 9:2 – not just any light, but a GREAT light! And the same Light is given to His beloveds when Zechariah blesses the infant John the Baptist: “And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, when the day shall dawn upon us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:76-79). And He has promised to be with us always, until the end of the age (Matthew 28:20).

Here;  https://www.raptureready.com/2019/04/21/three-days-darkness-april-kelcy/

Why Was Easter So Late This Year?

Just in case you need to answer this question while playing Trivia....why does the date of Resurrection Sunday change every year?

Answer;  Because it falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon following the first day of spring, which is always March 21.  

So if we had a full moon on March 20, Easter ends up falling late into April since the April full moon didn’t happen until Good Friday.

The Departure

This article came from Rapture Ready today in their Nearing Midnight section.  Are you ready?
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The Departure

Author’s note: This article has appeared in this and other forums previously. The heads-up it represents to the Christian who should be looking for the Blessed Hope (Titus 2:13) has never been more relevant than now. Because the spiritual falling away is so pronounced, the literal (spatial) “Departure”–the Rapture of the Church–has never been more in immediate prospect!

The Scripture is haunting. It echoes and reverberates throughout the spiritual hallways of the Church with each passing hour.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. (1 Timothy 4:1).

This forewarning fits into the last-days pattern, also given by the Apostle Paul, in the familiar prophetic passage:

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of Perdition. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)

The “falling away,” apostasia in Greek, means a “departure from.” Paul prophesied in the 2 Timothy 4:1 passage that there will come a time at the end of the Church Age when people will depart from the “faith.” He foretells in 2 Thessalonians that this will be a general “falling away,” the apostasy of the end time. What is this “faith” from which people will fall away, and who are the “people” who will fall away? Another crucial question is: Can the departure that God forewarned be recognized when it occurs?

“Faith,” as here defined, must by context be the faith in the One who is at the heart of the Gospel–faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God, chosen from the foundation of the world to be the propitiation for the sin that separates fallen man from God. It is the faith you and I must have in order to confess with our mouths that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, and to believe in the deepest part of our spirits that God raised Him from the dead.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9)

A person can’t fall from a position (doctrinally speaking in this case) he never has attained. The “people,” then, whom Paul the apostle is writing about in his prophecies of 1 Timothy 4:1 and 2 Thessalonians 2:3 are those who have believed in Jesus Christ for salvation of their souls.

This brings us to the question: Can the departure God, through Paul, foretold be recognized when it occurs? To recognize that “falling away”–that apostasia, or apostasy—when it begins to happen will almost certainly give the Christian attuned to God’s will a heads-up on the nearness of the Tribulation era, thus to the nearness of the Rapture of the Church.

We have looked at the “faith” as faith in Jesus for salvation and at the “people”who will “depart” from the faith as being the Church–that is, the true Christians who are alive at the time of the end, when the apostasy takes place.

Although there are those who think this departure includes the possibility of one losing one’s salvation, the “falling away” of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 cannot include that meaning. A quick look at Romans 8:38 and 39, to name just one security-of-the-believer passage, shows that God’s Word teaches that the believer can’t depart from the Heavenly Father to the point of losing his or her family status. Jesus, in John chapter 17, makes that absolutely clear. I suggest that if you have questions about this, read the Scriptures I just mentioned.

What, then, is meant by “departing from the “faith”? Glad you asked. The “faith” mentioned in 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy 2:3 is a collection of faith principles wrapped up in the Lord Jesus Christ. These principles are doctrines put forth by the Word of God. The Word of God is none other than the Lord  Jesus:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)

“People” at the time of the “falling away” will “depart” from the “faith”–the doctrines put forth by the Word of God, who is Jesus Christ. This departure will mark the generation of Christians at the very end of the Church Age.

The question that applies most relevantly to us today is: Are we seeing signals of the departure about which Paul forewarned?

We have analyzed, dissected, examined, and inspected every end-time signal found in God’s Word many times in these commentaries: Israel again in the land of promise; the EU looking to be the reviving Roman Empire; Russia, Persia (modern Iran) and other nations looking to be a nucleus that will one day form the Gog-Magog force of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. These, plus, all of the other end-time characteristics of this generation.

However, I believe the most insidious of all the things taking place under the clever, devious hand of the devil–Satan—is the falling away, the departure from the faith being currently orchestrated by Lucifer, the fallen one.

This departure is evident to the spiritually discerning when looking at the church growth movement. This “seeker friendly” approach to both the saved and the lost (all who don’t know Christ) through New Age, corporation-type seminar seductiveness and brainwashing techniques that water down or completely eliminate true Bible doctrine is leading in a profound departure from the “faith once delivered” (see Jude 1: 3).

The new paradigm instituted by the champions of the church growth movement is the shift from New Testament Christianity to “New Spirituality-Driven Christianity.” Like in the modern corporate organization, invented in large part by German economic guru Peter Drucker, who mentored some of the leading designers of the church growth movement, the system is more an organism than an organization–adopting Drucker’s model based upon Freudian psychology and Darwinian evolutionary principles. The individual is assigned a value, and must fit in or be removed from the system. To put it as I heard one person of the movement say: “Pillars just hold things up. So, they need to be moved out of the way.” So, those who hold to doctrine must get out of the way so no one

will have their feelings hurt by talk of sin, blood atonement, and eternal punishment in the place called Hell, if repentance is not forthcoming.

Again, the Apostle Paul wrote God’s view of this watering down of doctrine:

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8)

Are we at the point of departure from the faith that is prophesied for the very end of the Church Age? Maybe we can get a better sense by looking at one more area of Scripture pertaining to the matter:

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:1-4)

There is another prophetically scheduled departure to consider. It’s the one we should be looking forward to. It is a God-ordained onethat will remove every child of God of the Church Age–living and dead—from Planet Earth in one millisecond:

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. (Titus 2:13)

–Terry

3 yr old Boy Tells Mom He is Transgender

The insanity continues in Hollywierd and is spreading across the country. If things continue moving this way, soon your 3 yr old could say, “Mommy I’m a monkey!”, and you will need to raise him like a monkey...because remember that 3 yr olds know exactly what’s going on in their heads!

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Charlize Theron is the mother of two children, Jackson - who was adopted in 2012 - and August - who was adopted in 2015. 

Although her 7-year-old child Jackson was assigned male at birth, Theron has recently confirmed to the Daily Mail that she actually identifies as a female. 

“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” Theron told The Daily Mail, “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: ‘I am not a boy!'”

“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” the “Long Shot” star shared. “They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”

https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2019/04/19/charlize-theron-confirms-daughter-jackson-is-transgender/23714592/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_4026979&ncid=txtlnkusaolp00001361